someone should really be slapped for that. optimizing for i486 is fully understandable when considering slow embedded boards, but removing cpu arch support is highly stupid. You saved maybe 1K of kernel image size with that, and excluded all more powerful embedded systems as CompactPCI or it’s successors.

I think I bought my first used CompactPCI system in 2002, and it already used P3 CPUs.

I’ll grab a windows PC with PuTTY now, and hope there is some way to get a serial connect. Otherwise I’m really doomed.